Introduction to Vichara Health

1. Intelligent Error Surveillance
Improving Patient Safety
In America’s Hospitals
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2. Mission:
To develop the standard by which hospitals quantify harm

3. The Team

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o Former AHA-NPSF National
Patient Safety Fellow
o Pharmacist
o Lean/Six Sigma black belt
o Focus patient safety
o 15 years in hospital senior
management
o Deep network of connections in
hospital quality and safety
community
CEO: Pranish Kantesaria, PharmD

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o Doctorate in Computer Science
o Post Doctoral Fellow at UT
Austin – machine learning
o Specialization in evolutionary
computation
o Co-founder Finchbeak LLC –
applying AI to social games
CTO: Joel Lehman, PhD

6. The Problem

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Medical Errors are the
3rd leading cause of
death in the US

8. Hospital Patients Car Accidents
305,000
34,000
770,000
Harmed
Killed
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Patient Harm In 2014
Total Patients in
US Hospitals:
36,156,245

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Other
Additional
Medical Costs
$17 Billion
$19.5 Billion
Total
Cost of Medical Errors

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o Liability Payments
o Malpractice Premiums
o Legal Billing
o Leapfrog Group Scores
o Rejected Claims
o DRG Maximization
o Length of Stay
o Readmissions
o Marketing
o Community Relations
o Pt. Satisfaction (HCAHPS)
o Culture of Safety Scores
o Reimbursement (VBP)
o Staff Turnover
o Leapfrog Rating
o Effective use of Quality and
Safety Resources
o Clinical Decision Support
Development
o Leverage with Payers
o Statistical Process Control Use
o Staff Evaluations
Errors Affect:

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Better Tools
Already Exist

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Error Reporting
20%
80%
Voluntary Reporting
Reported
Errors
Unreported
Errors
80%
20%
Trigger Tools
Reported
Errors
Unreported
Errors

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Average Chart Review:
20 min
Workday:
8 Hours
Average Size:
100 Beds
Staff Required:
5.5 FTE
Hospital Burden

14. The Solution

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Intelligent Error Surveillance

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o Scans discharged patient records and looks for
errors and near misses
o Uses machine learning algorithms to combine data
points into a comprehensive picture
o Same way a clinician would when reviewing a chart
Intelligent Error Surveillance

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Complete
Controlled
Efficient
Intelligent Errors Surveillance

18. THANK YOU
pranish@vicharahealth.com
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317-800-1564